Bardhan made the serious charge against Soli Sorabjee while participating in a "meet-the-press" programme organised by Nagpur Union of Working Journalists.

He said "the Advocate General's job is to advice the government by interpreting the Constitution. But Sorabjee is acting in a different way. He has not only spoken about the need to review the constitution but has also expressed his views on sensitive matters like use of the Article 356."

Bardhan noted that Sorabjee had even gone to the extent of suggesting that the President can make use of the Article 356 in his personal capacity, without the Governor's report or Union Government's recommendations.

Soliis advocating the BJP's line of introduction of the Presidential form of government in place of the present Parliamentary system, which is a dangerous trend, he said.

Bardhan did not spare BJP leaders, who are frequently refering to the National Agenda only to camouflage the BJP's own agenda and that of the Sangh Parivar. All three agendas are before the BJP leaders, who make convenient use of any one of them at a time. "Never before was there such an attempt to camouflaging the real intentions of the ruling party," he said.

He alleged that the BJP was pursuing its own agenda and not striving for consensus on national issues. Though the Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's intentions cannot be doubted, he admitted.

The CPI leader also hit hard at the BJP for attempting to review the Constitution. Review amounts to saying that all Articles and the cardinal principles enshrined in the Constitution, like secularism, article 370 and parliamentary form of democracy are open to debate.

Unfortunately, eventhe media has not taken a serious view of it before easily according acceptability to the National Agenda, he said.

According to the veteran Communist leader, the need is to launch a jan sangharsha (mass struggle) against the BJP led government on ideological issues. There is no need to waste time in making false attempt to pull down the government, he averred.

He was of the firm view that in launching a mass struggle against the BJP in the name of fighting communalism, the United Front should not have any arrangement with the Congress. The coming together of United Front and Congress for fighting BJP's communalism would mean polarisation between a BJP-led alliance and an anti-BJP front led by Congress, he reasoned.

Visualising that such a situation will be to the liking both BJP and Congress and detrimental to the National Front, he made it clear that "we do not want such a polarisation to take place at the national level."